SAC Meeting 2017-11-09

Please list the meeting topics, and link to relevant SAC tickets when possible. Meeting will be for assigning tasks, updating status, and voting. Majority of discussions should happen on the mailing list and IRC in before and after meetings. Estimated 30-60 minutes.

New sysadmin contract - Martin Spott - should have contract with Martin's company settled by this time.

Ticket Cleanup - Who wants to help reclassify and close tickets, so high priority is properly flagged for contract.

2017 Budget report - Requested from Treasurer (All Amounts in USD)

Total Budgeted $15,000, spent $5917.08

$5533.05 Admin Contract #2 Jan 2017

$384.03 to GetInteractive for WebSite Hosting Transfer, Oct/Nov 2017

2018 Budget drafting

Board needs request by 21st of November, 2017

Setting aside money for Cloud Servers, How much can we afford, what providers.

I think we should consider a couple since each has strengths (e.g. some allow stop start, many allow create/drop instead of buying a specific server, some provide lots of bandwidth and automated backups but may have smaller size etc, many offer lots of OS, some are limited to just one etc) and maybe not put all our money in one